14 DAY TRIAL // The holiday season might be the time to be jolly and binge watch cheesy movies, but I could not help but share this picture of a baby cockatoo born at the Prague Zoo in the Czech Republic earlier this year.
I don't know about you, but I think the baby bird look less like something one might want to cuddle with all day long, and more like something out of a horror movie. Still, I find myself unable to take my eyes of it.
According to Zoo Borns, the cockatoo chick hatched in fall. The picture above was taken shortly after its birth and, as one can easily notice, the baby bird is anything but good looking.
The good news is that, once it grows and becomes an adult, it will sport black feathers, a large black crest and bright red patches on its chest.
The chick is a palm cockatoo. The species is native to Australia and New Guinea and, for the time being, the International Union for Conservation of Nature does not consider it to be in danger of going extinct.